DMA ‘gatekeepers’ list unveiled, car brands go against user privacy

 “Gatekeepers will now have to adapt if they want to benefit from the Single Market” 

- Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for the Internal Market, told EURACTIV.

Story of the week: Thierry Breton, European commissioner for the internal market, announced in a post on the social media platform X the list of gatekeepers that fall under the Digital Market Act (DMA). They include Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft. This list of online services designated as “gatekeepers” will now have six months to adapt to strict antitrust practices or face up to 20% global annual turnover fines. While Samsung did not make the list of gatekeepers, Meta qualified for five of its “core platform” services: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Meta Marketplace. Alexandre de Streel, an academic director at the Centre on Regulation in Europe, commented, “It is not probable that a company contests it is a gatekeeper itself, but more probable that it contests that one of its core platform services qualifies as a gateway”. Read more.